A Warning to Infidels: Don't "Stereotype" Jihad to Mean "Holy War"

As if the whole thing is our problem. As if, as per this Indian Muslim historian, who claims that "everything is jihad" (including "pursuit of education, earning a living and fighting your egos"), everything will be okey-dokey once we infidels stop conflating "jihad" with, well, jihad:

The Muslim historian encouraged non-Muslims to contact their Muslim friends to get the true and proper meaning of Jihad. 

"The problem is people are too scared to question. That should not be the case. By not questioning negativity shrouds Islam," Habib said. 

"So ingrained is the fear of the word that my lecture in Chennai almost got cancelled after some people raised concerns over jihad being the topic," he added. 

There are some 140 million Muslims in Hindu-majority India and they have long complained of being discriminated against in all walks of life. 

Jihad is often stereotyped by Western media as meaning “holy war”. 

But Muslim scholars have repeatedly affirmed that the word Jihad, which is mentioned in the Noble Qur'an, means "struggle" to do good and to remove injustice, oppression and evil from society. 

Karen Armstrong, the prominent and prolific British writer on all three monotheistic religions, has criticized stereotyping the Arabic word "jihad" as merely meaning holy war.

To clarify: Armstrong is a prominent and prolific British apologist for Islam; when "everything is jihad," nothing is jihad (a great way to try to sanitize the concept); and the big problem isn't that infidels "stereotype" jihad to mean "holy war" but that by-the-book holy warriors do.